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SUMNER HILL—Anne Fowler, who has been at the helm of St. John’s Episcopal Church at 1 Roanoke Ave. for two decades and was part of the effort to legalize gay marriage in the state, stepped away as rector last month. “I have loved my years here, and leave this very special community with profound...

Police are seeking suspects in two separate shootings July 29 that left two men wounded in Egleston and Jackson Squares. In the Egleston Square incident, a man in his 20s was wounded by a gunshot and beaten in the face with a pistol early in the morning in the area of 72 Walnut Park...

Over 100 parking spaces located under the Casey Overpass will be relocated across the street to the Arborway bus yard during construction of the Casey Arborway before they are mostly eliminated. The state Department of Transportation’s (MassDOT) Casey Arborway project will remove spaces currently located under the aging overpass as part of its plan...

Overlapping police jurisdictions in the current Casey Overpass area are already a longstanding issue that lowers law enforcement and frustrates residents trying to call for help. With the forthcoming Casey Arborway, plans to simply expand those overlaps are inadequate and amount to jurisdiction as fiction. Today’s Forest Hills nexus of the Arborway and Washington...

The recent openings of cafés on former vacant MBTA parcels is good news for JP’s economy and street life, and a rebirth of vitality stolen by the failed I-95 highway project that seized some of that land by eminent domain decades ago. Simpli Bar & Bites on Washington Street and Café Bartlett Square on...